health. Adjusting for people's characteristics, states such as Louisiana and DC have high psychological well-being levels …

economy. A key issue examined is how the level of pain in a society is influenced by the unemployment rate. Method: The study … of the economy. Pain is high when the unemployment rate is high. That is not because of greater pain among people who …

Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control …This study estimates the effect of job loss on health for near elderly employees based on longitudinal data from the … their previous employers' business. I find that the unemployed are in worse health than employees, and that health reasons …

average re-employment probabilities. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does … somewhat if a worker is unemployed in an area with high overall unemployment. …

in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from … of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004 … the racial unemployment gap near the peak of the business cycle is driven by a reduction in the rate of job loss for …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

This paper comprehensively studies the health effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) regulation. Relying on up to 3 ….4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital admissions from Germany over one decade, we do … not find much evidence that population health significantly decreases when clocks are set forth by one hour in spring …

health. Adjusting for people's characteristics, states such as Louisiana and DC have high psychological well-being levels …

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i ….e., switching from self-employment to unemployment) are substantial and exceed the costs of involuntarily losing a salaried job (i …

Worldwide, countries have been restricting work and social activities to counter an emerging public health crisis due … to the coronavirus pandemic. These measures have caused dramatic increases in unemployment in the short run, with an …. We estimate the relationship between unemployment, a widely accepted proxy for economic climate, and mortality in …